William Grigg and Arsenal loanee Benik Afobe both scored braces as a United squad featuring a mixture of youth and experience was blown away by a team who lie seventh in the fledgling League One table, two divisions below their illustrious rivals.

In the Daily Telegraph, there is no beating about the bush as its sports pages lead with "Shaming the Shirt: Van Gaal's shambolic United thrashed by League One minnows". The full-page splash shows Van Gaal looking horrified as events unfold during the game. And on its website, the paper runs through a rogues gallery of United's recent signings under the banner "£213.7m of signings = 35 starts and only 7 goals"

The Sun combined the transfer of Di Maria and the thrashing at MK Dons for their banner reading "Capital punishment" and the headline "DiSASTER," followed by "United humiliated by minnows" and Di Maria's statement of "I didn't want to leave Real". Ryan Giggs is pictured covering his face while Van Gaal looks to the floor.

The Independent runs with a simple headline of "MK Dons 4 LVG 0", below a picture of Ryan Giggs and Louis van Gaal looking concerned on the United bench at stadium:mk.